Remember When: John Maclay, a powerful Scottish Secretary of State

WHEN Viscount Muirshiel, the former Scottish Secretary of State, John (Jack) Maclay, died in August 1992, aged 86, a very full appreciation appeared in these pages.
Written by R.D. Kernohan, it began: “Viscount Muirshiel was a man of many honours, and of honour. But he lived to so ripe an age as a friend of good causes and an elder statesman beyond politics that Jack Maclay (as he was until 1964) was almost forgotten as a once formidable politician.
“He was a powerful Secretary of State for Scotland under Harold Macmillan (1957-62) but his political role never quite matched his abilities or potential.

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